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...beautiful house, at Brno, Czechoslovakia. He was Director of the Dessau Bauhaus from 1930 to 1933. On his first visit to the U. S. last year, his friend John Augur Holabird of the esteemed Chicago firm of Holabird & Root interested Mies van der Rohe in Chicago, the Armour Institute in Mies van der Rohe...
...triumphant speeches the U. S. gathered that its helium might be used for war, held up the shipment. Last week Germany inquired through U. S. Ambassador Hugh Wilson when it might expect the agreed shipment of 17,900,000 cu. ft. In January Germany's helium ship Dessau, with 486 steel cylinders aboard, each accommodating 5,600 cu. ft. of highly compressed gas, docked at Houston, Tex., ready to take back to Germany the first installment. Ambassador Wilson was reminded that Germany had gone to "considerable expense" to revamp the LZ-130 from hydrogen to helium. Last week...
Perambulator. Paul Klee has not been without honor in Europe or the U. S, At the world-famed Bauhaus directed by Architect Walter Gropius at Weimar, later Dessau, Germany, Klee was for nine years one of three artist-instructors in painting.*Like Picasso and de Chirico, he was tapped by the surrealists in the '20's but stayed outside the club. In 1930 Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art gave him the first big U. S. exhibition. When Germany became inclement to modern art five years ago, stern-faced, gentle Fantasist Klee settled near his birthplace...
This week the 3,663-ton North German Lloyd freighter Dessau docks at Houston, Tex. Under her decks are 486 empty steel cylinders to carry back to Germany the first installment of U. S. gas. At 2,500 Ib. per sq. in. pressure, 5,600 cu. ft. of helium can be compressed into each cylinder. In the U. S. helium for medical treatments (asthma, croup), deep-water diving, laboratory experiments, is shipped 200,000 cu. ft. at a time in cylinders 40 ft. long, 4 ft. in diameter which travel four to a flatcar...
Relinquished by Gropius in 1928, the Bauhaus was directed successively by Functionalist Hannes Meyer and by Mies van der Rohe, a German architect famed for the elegance he has added to functionalism. In 1932 the school in Dessau had to be closed because an unfriendly Nazi Government would no longer support it. By that time, however, the designs of Bauhaus workmen had permeated German industry, their liberated minds had produced two sound inventions now familiar in Europe and the U. S.: indirect lighting, tubular furniture...